Clothes-line hoist.



A. SCHULTZ.

CLOTHES LINE HOIST.

APPLICATION r1120 MAY 2 1912.

1,179,460. v Patented Apr. 18,1916.

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I CLOTHES LINE H0|ST.' I APPLICATION yuan MAY 2. 1912.

1,179,460. Patnted Apr. 18, 1916.

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m O O THE COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH C0., WASHINGTON, D. c

A. SCHULTZ.

CLOTHES LINE H0|ST.'

APPLICATION FILED MAY 2, 1912.

Patented Apr. 18, 1916.

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AUGUST SCHULTZ, OF SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' y CLOTHES-LINE HOIST.

Application filed May 2, 1912. Serial No. 694,752.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUs'r SCHULTZ, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Diego, in the county of San Diego and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Line Hoists, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to clothes line hoists, and has for its object to provide such a device particularly adapted to use in crowded sections of cities, where, on account of small circulation of air between buildings, dampness, excessive dust, or other causes, it is necessary, or desirable, even though the laundry be located on a lower floor to elevate the line to a proper distance to obviate the objections as far as practicable.

It is an important object to enable clothes to be placed upon a line in one place while the line is moved therepast, and to allow subsequent hoisting and horizontal movement of the loaded line and to enable the work to be done in more or less privacy, as in the bay of a building.

Other objects and advantages will be apparent from the following description, and from the drawings, in which,

Figure 1, is a side view of the device in loading position, Fig. 2, is a topview of the device, Fig. 3, is a front view of the inner standards and hoisting mechanism, Fig. 4, is a side view of the inner standards and hoisting mechanism with part of one standard removed, Fig. 5, is a sectional view of the outer standard, Fig. 6, is a detail of a modified construction, Fig. 7 is a fragmentary side view with one of the standards removed, in the modification.

There is illustrated a supporting frame work 10, erected in any suitable manner, and including the inner guide standards 11, slidably carried between which there is a carriage 12 of any suitable construction for supporting the winding drum 13. This drum is divided at a central. point by a flange 14, and is operated by a crank 15 of any suitable form, and adapted to be held against movement at various positions by means of the ratchet and pawl 16. Placed at a suitable distance from the frame-work 10 and at the far side of the space over which it is desired to suspend clothes while drying, there is an upright guide standard 17, in which there is slidable the block 18, carrying a pulley 19, around which extends the supporting line 20 operable from the drum 13 as will be described. One end of the line 20 is attached to the drum 13 at its upper side, adjacent one end, the return strand 20 of this line being attached to the lower side of the drum adjacent its opposite end. This line should be of such length that a sufficient amount will be wound on the drum at all times to permit the desired eX- tent of movement of the line. The line 20 18 connected to a cradle 21 suspended by the pulley 22 upon the line 20, the attachment being effected after the line is passed under the pulley 19. A corresponding cradle 21 spaced from the one 21 is similarly supported on the line 20, from which extends the strand 20 toward the drum and between these cradles there is tautly stretched a plurality of clothes-lines 23. Any suitable means may be employed for holding the Patented Apr. 18, 1916. I

line 20 taut, so that the clothes lines will be properly stretched. It will be seen that with the carriage 12 and block 18 near the ground, by proper operation of the crank 15, the clotheslines may be moved to any convenient point for the attachment of garments thereto, and may bemoved along as the garments are attached, so that the person placing the clothes thereon need not move around to any great extent.

As indicated in the outline in Fig. 1, the device is well adapted to be operated before windows 24, the clothes being placed upon the lines 23 as the device is operated to move the line 23 along before the window,

after which it may be hoisted so that the clothes will be well above the windows, and not obstruct light or impair the view therefrom, as will now be described. At one side of the frame 10, there is a drum 26 operable in any suitable manner, from which there extends a hoisting line 27 upwardly over a pulley 28 at the top of the frame, then downwardly and under a pulley 29 on the carriage 12, and then the line is carried upwardly again and over a pulley 30 disposed centrally over the frame, the line then being extended horizontally to the top of the guide member 17, where it is extended over a proper pulley 31 and downwardly to the block 18 to which it is attached. It willv thus be seen that when the lines 23 are filled, by proper operation of the drum 26 the carriage 12 and block 18 may be hoisted ion WVhen it is desired to lower the device and remove the clothes, the operation is simply the reverse of that required for the elevation of the clothes. It will be apparent that if more desirable, the longitudinal movement of the clotheslines 23 may be accomplished by direct application of force thereto manually, or to the line 20. If it should be found that in the elevation of the device binding occurs in the guideways, a suitable mechanism may be employed for obtaining a similar rate of movement in the carriage 12 and block 18, such as is illustrated in Figs. 6 and 7, where the equivalent of the pulley 29 carried by the carriage 12 in the first described form is indicated by the numeral 29, and is splined upon the shaft 35, which carries at opposite ends the gears 36 meshed with the rack bears 37 carried in the guide standards 12. The pulley 29 is also preferably ribbed in its peripheral groove, whereby it takes a proper grip upon the line 27 for rotation of the gears. In this construction it will be seen that a corresponding lift may be obtained at both ends ofthe device, the gears 36 being made sufiiciently smaller than the pulley 29' for the purpose. The line 27 is extended from the pulley 28 to that side of the pulley 29 opposite the-rack, so that rotation of the gearsfor raising and lowering the carriage will occur at the same time that the block 18 is raised or lowered, as the case may be. By this construction the take up on the line extending from the pulley 29 to the outer standard will be greater than the upward movement of the carriage, and by making the pulley of proper size the same movement may be produced in the carriage and the block 18 with the single line.

lVhat is claimed is:

1. A device of the class described, comprising spaced vertical guides, vertically slidable elements carried thereby, one of the guide elements including vertical rack means, a shaft carried by the vertically slidable element, in the last named guide, gears on the shaft meshed with the rack means, a pulley secured centrally of the shaft, a

drum on the adjacent guide element, two pulleys at the top of the last named guide, a hoisting line attached to the drum extend ed upwardly over one of said two pulleys and downwardly around the pulley on the carriage, thence upwardly over the other of said two pulleys, a third pulley on the opposite guide member, said line being carried thereover and attached to the adjacent vertically slidable element.

2. In a device of the class described two guides, respective slidable elements on each to be hoisted and lowered, one of the guides including a vertical rack, a gear meshed with the rack mounted revolubly on the respective slidable element, a pulley larger than the gear connected with the gear, two pulleys at the top of the adjacent guide, a drum on the last named guide, a line at tached to the drum and extended over one of the last named pulleys under the first named pulley and over the other of said two pulleys, and a pulley at the top of the other guide, said line being extended thereover and attached to the adjacent slidable element.

3. A device of the class described, comprising a vertical guide, a carriage member slidable thereon vertically, a second vertical guide, a block slidable therein, a hoisting drum carried bv the first named guide, two pulleys at the top of the first guide, a pulley carried by the carriage member, a line extended from the drum over one of said pul leys at the top of the first named guide element, thence under the pulley on the carriage and upwardly over the second pulley at. the top of the guide element, a third pulley at the top of the second named guide element, said line being extended thereover and attached to said block.

It testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

AUGUST SCHULTZ. Witnesses GEORGE WV. STEPHENSON, HARRIS L. MoonY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G." 

